Breaking a two-day lull in cross-border skirmishes, Pakistan troops yesterday violated ceasefire again by targeting forward posts and villages along the Line of Control (Loc) in Akhnoor sector in Jammu, officials said.

Noted photographer Shahidul Alam has filed a writ petition with the High Court, challenging the legality of the case in which he suffered in jail for 107 days.

An Awami League leader was killed and 22 others were injured in factional clashes over the upcoming upazila election in three districts from Sunday night till yesterday.

At least 16 people, including two police men, were injured in a clash after locals blocked a road in Ukhia yesterday morning demanding quick repatriation of the Rohingyas and fences around the refugee camps.

India will mount a “smart fencing” comprising electronic surveillance along a difficult stretch of its border in Assam with Bangladesh today, the home ministry said yesterday.

The High Court yesterday directed the government to allow Barrister Mainul Hosein, an adviser to a former caretaker government, to go to Bangkok for checkup.

The decades-old defence treaty between the United States and the Philippines needs to be revamped, or risks dragging Manila into a war with China, the Filipino defence chief said yesterday.

French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday outlined his vision for Europe's future, urging reform of its passport-free Schengen area and setting up a new agency "for the protection of democracies" against cyber-attacks and fake news.

Junta leader Prayut Chan-O-Cha dropped his latest saccharine pop ballad on the Thai public yesterday, pining for the "democratic path" nearly five years after he seized power from the country's last elected government.

Four American tourists and a Kenyan pilot were killed when their helicopter crashed on an island in a lake in northwest Kenya, police said yesterday.

Estonia was on track yesterday for its first female prime minister after the opposition liberal Reform party won a general election, outpacing the governing centre-left and a surging far-right party buoyed by a backlash from mostly rural voters in the Baltic eurozone state.

India's Kumbh Mela religious megafestival wrapped up yesterday with some 10 million pilgrims expected to take a final holy plunge, taking the final tally towards 250 million, officials said.

Myanmar authorities seized more than 10 million meth pills worth $13.3 million over the weekend, police said yesterday, another massive haul in a country widely believed to be the world's largest methamphetamine producer.

Britain yesterday launched a global "period poverty" fund and taskforce to help all women and girls access sanitary products by 2050 and to tackle the stigma around menstruation.

An alleged drug peddler was killed in what police said was a gunfight between two gangs of drug traders at Kazipur village in Gangni upazila of Meherpur early yesterday.

SpaceX's new Dragon capsule successfully docked on the International Space Station (ISS) yesterday, Nasa and SpaceX confirmed during a live broadcast of the mission.

As India and Pakistan seemingly dial down hostilities that brought the arch enemies to the brink of another war, a massive crackdown on militancy in the Indian-controlled Kashmir region is killing both militants and security personnel in big numbers.

Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) yesterday handed back a Myanmar soldier more than two months after he strayed across the border into a jungle in the Muslim-majority nation, a senior official said.

Two labourers of Rampal thermal power plant in Bagerhat have been killed and one sustained critical injuries as an iron-made container fell on them.

Investigators have seized two projectiles from the Boeing 737-800 Biman aircraft, which Polash Ahmed reportedly tried to hijack on February 24 at Chattogram Shah Amanat International Airport.